How the Soviet System Works : : Cultural, Psychological, and Social Themes / / Raymond A. Bauer, Clyde Kluckhohn, Alex Inkeles.

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• VerfasserIn: Bauer, Raymond A.,; Inkeles, Alex,; Kluckhohn, Clyde,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1956
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Russian Research Center Studies ; 24
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (274 p.)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Part I. Introductory
• 1.The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, and Its Data
• Part II. Operating characteristics of the soviet system
• 2.A Brief Review of the Formal Characteristics of the System
• 3.Creating and Maintaining Myths
• 4.Planning and Controlling
• 5.Problem Solving, the Overcommitment of Resources, and "Storming"
• 6.Refusal to Allow Independent Concentrations of Power
• 7. Terror and Forced Labor
• 8.Informal Adjustive Mechanisms
• 9.Rigidity-Flexibility
• 10.Caution at Major Risks in Foreign Affairs
• Part III. The individual in soviet society
• 11.Soviet Policy Toward the Individual
• 12.Sources of Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction
• 13.Attitudes Toward the Soviet System
• 14.Attitudes Toward the West
• 15.Some Aspects of Russian National Character
• 16.Political Loyalty of Individuals
• Part IV. Social and psychological characteristics of specific groups
• 17.The Ruling Elite
• 18.The Intelligentsia
• 19.The Peasants
• 20.The Workers
• 21.Generational Differences
• 22.Nationality Groups
• Part V. Conclusions
• 23.Summary
• 24.Some Evaluations by the Authors
• 25.Some Forecasts by the Authors
• Appendix. Reports and Publications of the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System
• References
• Index